Faculty

Saqer Almarri, Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: saqer.almarri@nyu.edu
Education: BBA American University in Dubai; MA American University of Sharjah; PhD Binghamton University State...

Research Interests: Premodern Arabic literature, translation studies, intersex studies, gender and Islam, coloniality of...

Tishani Doshi, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: Visiting
Email: tvd2@nyu.edu
Education: BA Queens University; MA Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: Poetics of embodiment; intersections between language, movement, and sound; performance and the body...

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Arts Professor of Literature Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ag10771@nyu.edu
Education: PhD in English and American Literature, University of Kent, UK

Research Interests: Colonialism and Postcolonialism, Effects of Migration and Displacement, Identity and Cultural Hybrid...

Nathalie Handal, Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nh53@nyu.edu
Education: MPHIL University of London; MFA Bennington College

Research Interests: Global literature, poetry, flash, literary travel writing, translation, diasporic literatures, Medi...

Paulo Lemos Horta, Associate Professor Of Literature; Global Network Associate Professor of Literature Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: paulo.horta@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, University of Toronto; MA, Queen’s University; MA, BA, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Research Interests: world literature

Sabyn Javeri, Senior Lecturer of Writing and Literature & Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sabyn.javeri@nyu.edu
Education: MSt Oxford University, PhD Leicester University

Research Interests: Postcolonial Feminism, South Asian Literature, Creative Writing

Maya Kesrouany, Program Head, Arab Crossroad Studies; Associate Professor of Literature and Arab Crossroads Studies Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mk5725@nyu.edu
Education: BA American University of Beirut; MA American University of Beirut; PhD Emory University

Research Interests: twentieth- and twenty-first century cultural production from the Middle East; translation theory; ae...

Halla Khalil, Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: Visiting
Email: Halla.khalil@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Candidate in English, University of Maryland, USA

Research Interests: Early modern drama, Shakespeare studies, philosophy, epistemology

Eduardo Lage Otero, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: eduardo.lageotero@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Santiago de Compostela; MA Washington University in St. Louis; PhD New York Univers...

Research Interests: Hispanic Studies; Multimedia Learning; Language Policy

Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: suzanne.m@nyu.edu
Education: BA Columbia University; MA Yale University; MFA University of California, Irvine; PhD Yale Universit...

Research Interests: Children's literature, childhood studies, diaspora and postcolonial studies, popular fiction, the ly...

Piia Mustamaki, Lecturer of Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pjm9@nyu.edu
Education: BA Hunter College of CUNY; MA Bristol University; PhD Rutgers University

Research Interests: travel narratives; gender, cultural and performance studies; Global South urbanism; cities as perfor...

Ram Natarajan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vn327@nyu.edu
Education: BA Johns Hopkins University; MA New York University; PhD New York University

Research Interests: Violence; non-violence; memory; trauma; law; literature; translation; Argentina; India

Bilal Orfali, Associate Dean of Research; Visiting Professor of Middle East and Arab Studies Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bo29@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Yale University

Research Interests: Arabic and Islamic Studies, Literature, Philology

Gregory Pardlo, Program Head, Literature and Creative Writing; Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pardlo@nyu.edu
Education: BA Rutgers University-Camden; MFA NYU; MFA Columbia University; MPhil CUNY Graduate Center

Research Interests: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Translation, African American Literature, Literary Criticism

Maurice Pomerantz, Executive Director of the NYUAD Institute, Professor of Literature and Arab Crossroads Studies Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mp147@nyu.edu
Education: BA, MA, and PhD University of Chicago

Research Interests: Arabic literature

Charles Siebert, Professor of Practice of Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: cs4635@nyu.edu

Miguel Syjuco, Assistant Professor of Practice, Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mas484@nyu.edu
Education: BA Ateneo de Manila University; MFA Columbia University; PhD University of Adelaide

Research Interests: n politics, history, inequality, cultural identity, literature, and formal experimentation

Deepak Unnikrishnan, Associate Arts Professor, Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: du258@nyu.edu
Education: BA Fairleigh Dickinson University; MA Fairleigh Dickinson University; MFA School of the Art Institut...

Marion Wrenn, Executive Director of Writing; Senior Lecturer of Writing and Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mw299@nyu.edu
Education: PhD New York University

Research Interests: journalism history, study of popular culture

Shamoon Zamir, Professor of Literature and Art History; Global Network Professor of Literature and Art History Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sz42@nyu.edu
Education: BA, University of London; MA, Institute of United States and Latin American Studies, London; PhD, Un...

Research Interests: literature, photography, intellectual history